International Bureaucracy: Challenges and Lessons for Public Administration Research

222 Pages·2017·2.58 MB·English

by  Michael W. Bauer

PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS
International Bureaucracy
Challenges and Lessons for Public
Administration Research
Edited by Michael W. Bauer,
Christoph Knill, Steffen Eckhard
Public Sector Organizations
Series Editors
B.   Guy P eters
Maurice Falk Professor of Government
Pittsburgh University
USA
Geert   Bouckaert
Professor Public Management Institute
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  Belgium
Organizations are the building blocks of governments. The role of
organizations, formal and informal, is most readily apparent in public
bureaucracy, but all the institutions of the public sector are comprised of
organizations, or have some organizational characteristics that affect their
performance. Therefore, if scholars want to understand how governments
work, a very good place to start is at the level of organizations involved
in delivering services. Likewise, if practitioners want to understand how
to be effective in the public sector, they would be well-advised to con-
sider examining the role of organizations and how to make organizations
more effective. This series publishes research-based books concerned with
organizations in the public sector and covers such issues as: the autonomy
of public sector organizations; networks and network analysis; bureau-
cratic politics; organizational change and leadership; and methodology for
studying organizations.
More information about this series at
http://www.springer.com/series/14525
Michael W . Bauer • Christoph K nill • Steffen E ckhard
Editors
International
Bureaucracy
Challenges and Lessons for
Public Administration Research
Editors
Michael W. Bauer Steffen Eckhard
German University Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
of Administrative Sciences München, Germany
Speyer, Germany
Christoph Knill
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München, Germany
Public Sector Organizations
ISBN 978-1-349-94976-2 ISBN 978-1-349-94977-9 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/978-1-349-94977-9
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ENDORSEMENTS
We all know that the major challenges of this world are global ones. We
also know that public administration is a crucial political actor. And still,
international bureaucracy is an underresearched subject. It is Bauer, Knill,
and Eckhard’s great merit to put international public administrations on
the agenda. This excellent collection makes an original contribution to
both International Relations and Public Administration research.
—Fritz Sager, University of Bern, Switzerland
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CKNOWLEDGMENT
This book is the result of a joint effort of the colleagues of the Research
Unit 1745 on “International Public Administrations (IPAs)” funded by
the German Science Foundation (DFG). The debates and discussions we
have had over the last two years have been extremely intellectually inspir-
ing. It took an impressive amount of discipline and perseverance for our
common ideas to be implemented in this volume. The last few years were
hard work and good fun at the same time. We are greatly indebted to
this wonderful team and the generous support from the German Science
Foundation.
The intellectual journey that led us to this book had an even ear-
lier beginning. A workshop on “Management Reforms in International
Bureaucracies” organized by Michael in 2006 at the University of
Konstanz marks the departure. Christoph and Michael broadened and
then further developed the IPA agenda in a couple of smaller research
projects. With the help and input of Helge Jörgens and Stephan Grohs,
the general frame of our research program took shape, while Arthur
Benz, Klaus H. Goetz, and Andrea Liese joined in with new perspec-
tives, thus refi ning and consolidating our joint endeavor. In this crucial
phase between having some ideas and turning them into a coherent gen-
eral framework and corresponding individual projects, funds from the
Cluster of Excellence (EXC16—Cultural Foundations of Integration)
and the Excellence Program of the University of Konstanz were essen-
tial. Once the Research Unit became operative in 2014, Steffen Eckhard
joined as scientifi c coordinator, supporting Christoph and Michael as
speakers of the Research Unit.
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viii ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Many people helped us advance this research agenda on international
public administration. We would like to express our gratitude in particu-
lar to Wolfgang Seibel, Christopher Daase, Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt,
Stephan Grohs, and Helge Jörgens. For their invaluable assistance in
producing this book, we would like to thank Jan Zimmermann, Louisa
Bayerlein, and Laura Krämer.
The book mirrors our efforts so far. We have raised many more ques-
tions than we were able to settle in 250 pages. We are thus looking for-
ward to more collaboration and joint research in the study of IPAs in the
years to come.
Michael   W.   Bauer
C hristoph   Knill
Steffen   Eckhard
Munich and Speyer, September 2016
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BBREVIATIONS
ASEAN A ssociation of Southeast Asian Nations
BIS B ank for International Settlement
CBD C onvention of Biological Diversity
CFP Country Programming Framework
COP C onference of the Parties
CPA C omparative Public Administration
DFID U K Development Aid Agency
DG D irectorate General
EC European Commission
ECB E uropean Central Bank
ECJ European Court of Justice
EDRC E conomic and Development Review Committee
EU European Union
FAO F ood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
GEO BON G roup on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network
GMBSM G lobal Multilateral Benefi t Sharing Mechanism
IAEA I nternational Atomic Energy Agency
ICC I nternational Chamber of Commerce
IDB I nter-American Development Bank
IEA I nternational Energy Agency
ILO I nternational Labour Organization
IMF International Monetary Fund
IMO I nternational Maritime Organization
IO I nternational Organization
IOM I nternational Organization for Migration
IPA International Public Administration
IPPC I nternational Plant Protection Convention
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